CiteScore:
3.42ℹCiteScore:2017: 3.420CiteScore measures the average citations received per document published in this title. CiteScore values are based on citation counts in a given year (e.g. 2015) to documents published in three previous calendar years (e.g. 2012 – 14), divided by the number of documents in these three previous years (e.g. 2012 – 14).

Impact Factor:
3.129ℹImpact Factor:2017: 3.129The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years.
2018 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

5-Year Impact Factor:
3.682ℹFive-Year Impact Factor:2017: 3.682To calculate the five year Impact Factor, citations are counted in 2017 to the previous five years and divided by the source items published in the previous five years.
2018 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):
1.693ℹSource Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):2017: 1.693SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR):
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Global and innovative solutions to climate change and its effects on the economy and society

Climate change is a scourge of our time, and its effects will be devastating if urgent measures are not taken. The impact of climate change is already noticeable. Global temperatures are increasing, sea levels are rising, and ice caps are melting. The economic and social impacts, which include impoverished health, reduced food production, droughts, and extreme weather events, are no less serious.

Accordingly, climate change is a global problem from environmental, political, economic, and social perspectives. As such, it demands swift action. As time passes, the required investment to counteract its severe effects rises.

The situation is complex. Furthermore, some regulations penalize self-consumption and renewable energies while fomenting dirty energies.

To aggravate the situation, some solutions that are designed to counteract the effects of climate change have continued to worsen climate change, producing a vicious circle that is difficult to break. Auffhammer et al. (2017:1889) proposes a way of breaking this vicious circle. In reference to electricity demand, Auffhammer affirms that “although increasing temperatures may spur greater adoption of air conditioners (and therefore greater temperature), they may also spur the development of more efficient air conditioning technologies.”

Potentially, therefore, technological innovation is the most reliable, effective way of breaking this vicious circle by curbing the severe consequences of climate change. Alternative technological solutions could be applied in the coming years to protect the Earth from the profound damage that it is currently suffering. But some such alternatives still have to prove their viability and effectiveness because they are risky and expensive. Examples include burying carbon dioxide underground, removing carbon dioxide from the air through giant filters, petrifying carbon dioxide through chemical reactions, fertilizing sterile seas with powdered iron to favor the growth of plankton, and placing a mirror between the Earth and the Sun to filter infrared radiation and stabilize the Earth’s climate.

The implications of climate change demand a response through changes in technology policy, lifestyle, and economics. In terms of human response, the answers to this challenge are unlikely to come from isolated solutions. Instead, the global repercussions of the problem also demand global responses that entail the participation and collaboration of different groups and interests.

From this perspective, this special issue will present papers that relate to, among others, the following themes:

Technology applied to the circular economy and its effects on climate change.

Implications of the Internet of Things for services and applications.

Adaptation capacity through information and knowledge management.

Nexus and interactions of data for climate change solutions.

Modeling green growth and society changes.

New forms of economies and their effects on new forms of economic order.